To:THE PETROGRAD COMMITTEE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.(B.)

Written:Written on November 2 (15), 1917Published:First published in part in 1960 in the journalVoprosy Istorii KPSSNo. 2.

      Published in full in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 50.

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      Moscow,Volume 44,

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Iearnestly request the Petrograd Committeeimmediatelyto pass a decision against conciliation and to put it before
the
C.C.[1]

[1]Thisrefers to a resolution of the Petrograd Committee of the
R.S.D.L.P.(B.) on the question of setting up a “homogeneous
socialist government” of representatives from various parties and
organisations “from the Bolsheviks to the Popular Socialists”.
The demand for such a government came from the Mensheviks
and Socialist-Revolutionaries, who counted on playing the
leading role in it. Their proposal had the support of some of the
members of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.)—L. B. Kamenev,
G. Y. Zinoviev, A. I. Rykov and their few adherents. The C.C.
of the Bolshevik Party at a sitting held on November 2(15), 1917,
strongly condemned the Right-opportunist, conciliatory attitude
of the capitulators (see present edition, Vol. 26, pp. 277–79).
Apparently, this note of Lenin’s was written daring the sitting
of the Central Committee.

Thenote was read out at a sitting of the Petrograd Committee
of the Party. In a resolution on the current situation, the
Petrograd Committee stated that the government in the proletarian
republic had to be a government of the Soviets of Workers’,
Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies, that the task of Soviet power was
to put into effect the revolutionary programme advanced by the
Bolsheviks, and that any departure from it was impermissible.
This resolution was sent to the Party Central Committee.

OnNovember 3 (16), the Central Committee presented an
ultimatum to the opposition minority demanding completesubordination to the decisions of the Central Committee (see present
edition, Vol. 26, pp. 280–82). The conciliators, however, refused
to submit to Party discipline, and resigned from the Central
Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars. The Central
Committee branded them as saboteurs (see present edition, Vol. 26,
pp. 301–02). New people, loyal to the cause of the Party, were
brought into the government.